PUBLISHED BY B. J. HOLDSWORTH, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, SOLD ALSO BY JOHN ANDERSON, JUNIOR, AND AND R. M. TIMMS, DUBLIN. ! PAGE Adam's Private Thoughts on Religion Andrew's Hebrew Dictionary and Grammar, without Points Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year 1824 A Vindication of the Authenticity of the Narratives contained in the first Baker's History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton, Part I. Pennine Alps, &c. 's Specimens of the Russian Poets Brown's, Dr. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Barchell's Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa Border's, H. F. Lectures on Religion Burns's Plurality of Offices in the Church of Scotland examined Chalmers's, Dr. Statement in Regard to the Pauperism of Glasgo Clarkson's Thoughts on the Necessity of improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies, &c. - Cotta's Administration of Criminal Justice in England, and the Spirit of the English Government Drew's Attempt to demonstrate from Reason and Revelation, the necessary Existence and essential Perfections of an Eternal Being, &c. Hall's, Robert, Address on the State of Slavery in the West India Islands Harvard's Narrative of the Establishment and Progress of the Mission to Henderson's Appeal to the Members of the British and Foreign Bible Society Henniker's, Sir Frederick, Notes during a Visit to Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Hodgson's Letter to M. Jean Baptiste Say on the Comparative Expense of Irby and Mangles's Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor, during the Years 1817 and 1818 Jerram's Tribute of Parental Affection to the Memory of a beloved and only Johoson's, Dr. Private Correspondence of Wm. Cowper, &c. Esq. 169 193 Lee's, Professor, Remarks on Dr. Henderson's Appeal to the Bible Society, - 530 Les Hermites en Prison. Par E. Jouy et A. Jay- Letters from an absent Brother List of Works recently Published Lowell's Brief Statement of the Reasons for Dissent from the Church of England 188 Mackworth's Tour through Southern India, Egypt, and Palestine, in the Memoirs of the Baron de Kolli, written by Himself 778 Millar's Inquiry into the Present State of the Statute and Criminal Law of. Montgomery's Chimney Sweeper's Friend, and Climbing Boy's Album Moor's Suffolk Words and Phrases Morier's Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan .. Morning Thoughts in Prose and Verse, by a Country Clergyman, &c. Orloff's Essai sur l'Histoire de la Peinture en Italie Parkinson's Outlines of Oryctology Personal Narrative of a Private Soldier, who served in the Forty-Second Highlanders, during the late War Pringle's Account of the English Settlers in Albany, South Africa Professiopal Christianity, by a Medical Practitioner 372 Recollections of the Peniosula Roughley's Jamaica Planter's Guide Rural Walks of Cowper displayed in a Series of Views, &c. Sheppard's Thoughts preparative or persuasive to Private Devotion Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and Italy, by the Author of Sketebes of Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt's Duke of Mercia, an Historical Drama - 163 Sketches of the Lives of Correggio and Parmegiano - . . 216 Small's Interesting Roman Antiquities recently discovered in Fife Stewart's View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica - 97 Subject of a Debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th of May, 1823, on a Motion for the Mitigation and gradual Abolition of Slavery, throughout the British Dominions - Sumner's Evidence of Christianity derived from its Nature and Reception 507 Time's Telescope for 1824 . . . . . Toller's Sermons on Various Subjects Tract Magazine, or Christian Miscellany Walker's Supplementary Annotations on Livy Watts's, Alaric A. Poetical Sketches The ECLECTIC REVIEW, For JANUARY, 1824. Art. I. 1. Notes, during a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem. By Sir Frederick Henniker, Bart. 8vo. pp. 340. (Plates.) Price 12s. London, 1823. , 2. Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor, during the Years 1817 and 1818. By the Hon. Charles Leonard Irby, and private Distribution. 8vo. London. 1823. VOUNG ENGLAND is running to look at old Egypt, the sleeping beauty of two thousand years ago, upon whom Time, the great enchanter, turned the key, when we, a nation of yesterday, were a mere embryo,mour ancestry scattered over the wilds and woods of Germany, or sweeping the Northern seas. All her caverns, and temples, and pyramids have been shut and sealed during great part of this long interval; and now, behold the charm is dissolved, and the whole of their furniture-gods, mummies, and amulets, are found as they were left, the very colours of the paintings as fresh as ever! . Why, what is Pompeii to this spectacle? That is only an exhumated city; but here is a whole country brought to light, after having been invisible to Europeans for nearly a score of centuries. Poor Burckhardt has the merit of having led the way into Nubia ; but Mr. Bankes, who travelled in 1815, is believed to have been the first Englishman that ever succeeded in gaining the Second Cataract. In 1816, M. Drovetti, the ci-devant French consul in Egypt, together with his two agents, Rifaud and Cailliaud, accomplished the same enterprise. They were speedily followed by Mr. and Mrs. Belzoni, Captains Irby and Mangles, the Earl of Belmore and Dr. Richardson, and, in 1820, by Messrs. Waddington and Hanbury, who outventured them all. Mr. Legh, who preceded Mr. Bankes, ascended the Nile no further than Ibrim; Mr. Hamilton, Colonel Leake, and Mr. Hayes, no further than Deboud. Norden, who travelled eighty years ago, could only reach Derry; and Po VOL. XXI. N. S. |